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Date:      Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:29:28 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Bernhard_Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@bluelife.at>
Cc:        emulation@freebsd.org, wynkoop@wynn.com
Subject:   Re: virtualbox on FreeBSD 8.2
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1108250626110.5142@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <1314248865.3239.8.camel@Nokia-N900-42-11>
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote:

> On Mi., 24. Aug. 2011 22:57:54 CEST, wynkoop@wynn.com wrote:
>
>> Here it is:
>>
>>
>> ===> The following configuration options are available for
>> python27-2.7.2_1:         THREADS=off "Enable thread support"
>>            HUGE_STACK_SIZE=off "Use a larger thread stack"
>>            SEM=off "Use POSIX semaphores (experimental)"
>>            PTH=off "Use GNU Pth for threading/multiprocessing"
>>            UCS4=on "Use UCS4 for unicode support"
>>            PYMALLOC=on "Use python's internal malloc"
>>            IPV6=on "Enable IPv6 support"
>>            FPECTL=off "Enable floating point exception handling"
>> ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
>>
>> -Brett
>
> Thats it! Virtualbox needs python threads which is enabled per default for python 2.6 and 2.7 but you have disabled it for some reason.
>
> So recompile python 2.7 with the threads option enabled and then compiling vbox should work just fine.

Should the virtualbox port Makefile set BROKEN if Python threads are 
missing?
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